Learning Flow Cycle

What is the Learning Flow Cycle?

There are three distinct parts to the learning flow cycle in the Ooka Island Learn-to-Read System. This unique learning flow is what makes Ooka Island so engaging for young learners and keeps them eager to play and learn on Ooka Island.

1. Guided Play – focuses on phonological / phonic development through skill-building instructional activities.
2. e-Reader – focuses on concept of word, fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension through the Ooka Island Books Series (85 leveled and sequenced books in total)
3. Free Play – allows children to play activities that reinforce what they have learned, to reread books from the Popcorn Library, or to do just-for-fun activities.

*Helpful Hint – Children can exit out of Ooka Island at anytime and their progress and spot in the program is saved for the next time they log in.

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Mist Mart

As players progress through the reading activities, they earn “Ooka Mist”, the island’s currency. Ooka Mist can be spent during Free Play at the Mist Mart!

What can you buy at the Mist Mart?

Clothing and Costumes: Players can dress up their avatar in a wide variety of clothing and crazy costumes, which they can then find in the big yellow wardrobe located in the Pencil Playground.

• Pencil Playground Materials: New playground equipment, wallpaper and flooring purchases can be found already setup and ready to go in the Pencil Playground.

• Ooka Tunes Music: Ooka Island has a whole soundtrack of fun, original songs that encourages reading. Once purchased in the Mist Mart, players can find their new tunes on the giant radio in the Pencil Playground. *Also available as an app!
• Zopet: When players reach the top of Alphabet Mountain in the learning flow cycle, they unlock “Zopet”, their fun-loving Ooka pet! After this accomplishment, they can visit the Mist Mart during Free Play and buy Zopet. They can also purchase additional items for Zopet, including food and tricks. Zopet and all related items will appear after purchase by clicking on the doghouse in the Pencil Playground.

Mist Mart Helpful Hints:

• For the first few Free Play sessions, we encourage players to visit the Mist Mart before traveling to the Pencil Playground to get used to buying and then finding items.
• Since there are hundreds of items in the Mist Mart, it can take up to 20 seconds to load when a player clicks on the Mist Mart button.
• Items at the Mist Mart are only available to purchase if they have first been unlocked during the learning flow cycle.
• A padlock on an item in the Mist Mart indicates that the item has not yet been unlocked and the learning flow must continued in order to do so.

The following features are found in the Pencil Playground:

• Playground Rides: Click on the slide, see-saw, or trampoline, and then on the pop-up check mark to ride. Ride upgrades can be purchased at the Mist Mart. Once purchased they are placed in the Pencil Playground.

• Avatar Customization: Click on the big yellow wardrobe with the star to make changes to the avatar’s appearance, clothing, accessories, and costumes. Once the player is satisfied with the changes, they click the green check mark to go back to the Pencil Playground.

• Ooka Tunes Music: Ooka Island has a whole soundtrack of fun, original songs that encourages reading. Once purchased in the Mist Mart, players can find their new Tunes on the giant radio in the Pencil Playground. *Also available as an app!
• Teddy Bear Collection: Purchase teddy bears in the Mist Mart to have them placed on the shelf in the Pencil Playground. Fifteen bears complete the collection.
• Snack Shack: Click on the Snack Shack to feed an elf a healthy Ooka snack.
• Zopet’s Dog House: When players reach the top of Alphabet Mountain, they unlock Zopet in the Mist Mart. Once Zopet has been purchased, click on the doghouse in the Pencil Playground to bring Zopet out to play. Tricks and food can also be purchased in the Mist Mart and played with in the Pencil Playground.

• Floor and Wallpaper: Change the floor and wallpaper inside the Pencil Playground by purchasing new designs at the Mist Mart. Once purchased, these items instantly change the décor of the Pencil Playground.
• Wall Paintings: Purchase paintings in the Mist Mart to have them randomly placed on the walls inside the Pencil Playground. These wacky paintings change each time the player enters!

Pencil Playground Helpful Hints:

• Each time five new books have been read by the player, a rescued Ooka Elf is placed in the Pencil Playground to play and interact with the player.
• Once inside the playground, players walk around the environment by clicking on the floor in the desired direction.
• Changing the avatar’s hair in the wardrobe is what really gives the avatar a more “boy” or “girl” appearance.